On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 20:21, Xavier Bestel wrote:> > they load faster too (which is important - you can make your CPU have> > big caches, but _nothing_ saves you from the cold-cache costs). > > Next step: hardware gzip ?

gzip doesn't work because its not unpackable from an arbitary point. x86in many ways is compressed, with common codes carefully bitpacked. Ahorrible cisc design constraint for size has come full circle and turnedinto a very nice memory/cache optimisation